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      <object>2 Ex-Times Journalists Say They Heard of Watergate First</object>
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      <object>New Yorker Cover Art, Painted With an iPhone</object>
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      <object>New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines</object>
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      <object>Newsweek&#x2019;s Journalism of Fourth and Long</object>
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      <object>New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines</object>
      <object_desc>One test uses identification programs to decipher images scanned from books for digitization. Another requires people to flip an image right-side up.</object_desc>
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      <object>Amid Housing Bust, Phoenix Begins a New Frenzy</object>
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      <object>Newsweek&#x2019;s Journalism of Fourth and Long</object>
      <object_desc>BEFORE, left, a classically cluttered general-interest magazine that covered the cultural waterfront. AFTER, right, minimally decorated essays with arguments that dive deep into Beltway machinations.</object_desc>
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      <object>Guest Column: Math and the City</object>
      <object_desc>Thanks again to Leon Kreitzman for four fascinating articles about biological clocks in everything from peonies to people.  My sabbatical is rapidly drawing to a close &#x2014; but it isn&#x2019;t over yet!  My guest for the next three weeks is Steven Strogatz,...</object_desc>
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      <object>Throwing Open Uncle Sam&#x2019;s Data Mine</object>
      <object_desc>Back on Jan. 21, on President Obama&#x2019;s first full day in office, he put down a marker  on new standards for openness and transparency in government.</object_desc>
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      <object>South Korean Ex-President Kills Himself</object>
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